“Sisi”
RTL confirms the second season
Dominique Devenport and Jannik Schümann as Sisi and Franz in the first season of the six-part TVNow event series “Sisi”.
© RTL / SHP, LZ Kuhn
The “Sisi” series continues. The broadcaster confirmed this even before the world premiere of the first season in Cannes.
The world premiere of the six-part TVNow event series “Sisi” will take place on Monday evening (October 11th) as part of the Canneseries TV festival in Cannes in the south of France. The broadcaster obviously does not want to wait for the reactions of the audience and the critics and is now confirming the continuation. “We can confirm the second season,” said RTL’s spot on news when asked.
“Our goal was to revive the story of Sisi, but to tell it differently – from a modern perspective,” says Hauke Bartel, Head of Fiction RTL Germany. “That’s why I’m very happy not only to celebrate the world premiere of ‘Sisi’ here in Cannes, but also to announce now that the exciting story of the Austrian Empress is going into a second season on RTL + and RTL,” he continues.
This is what viewers can expect in the first season
The focus of the first season is “the love story of two young people between personal desires and political pressures, between power and vulnerability”, as the streaming service TVNow had announced.
The role of Emperor Franz Joseph I is played by Jannik Schümann (28, “9 days awake”). His wife, Empress Sisi, is played by newcomer Dominique Devenport (born 1996). And Désirée Nosbusch (56, “Bad Banks”) will be seen as Archduchess Sophie, the feared mother-in-law of Empress Elisabeth.
Other roles: Tanja Schleiff (role: Countess Esterhazy), Paula Kober (Fanny), Julia Stemberger (Sisi’s mother, Duchess Ludovica in Bavaria), David Korbmann (Count Grünne), Pauline Rénevier (Duchess Helene “Néné” in Bavaria, Sisi’s sister), Yasmani Stambader (Lajos Farkas), Giovanni Funiati (Count Andrassy) and Marcus Grüsser (Sisi’s father, Duke Max in Bavaria).
The broadcast is planned for the end of 2021 on TVNow and later on RTL.
Further films
Netflix is also working on its “Sisi” series. However, the popular “Sissi” film trilogy from the 1950s has not been forgotten to this day. The 17-year-old Romy Schneider (1938-1982) embodied the Empress and became a star alongside Karlheinz Böhm (1928-2014).